03x08 - Winter's Wrath

Post by **bunniefuu** » 07/05/26 06:19

[ominous beat plays]

[chainsaw buzzing]

[Jared] This year's been a lot
of ups and downs.

Mostly downs.

You want to give up,
but it's really not an option.

Tough times don't last.
Tough people do.

Forever Claim, it's finally in
my grips, and I cannot let it

slip through my fingertips.

[narrator] Previously,
on "The Last Woodsman"--

[Rob] Whoo!

After setting his sights
on the holy grail of

virgin timberland...

Lots of big wood, as far
as the eye can see.

Jared and the Cypress Creek
crew have been

grinding it out for months,

dodging crippling setbacks...
- [bleep]

[bleep]

Come on, you son of a b*tch.

...and earning
hard-fought wins.

a full one, buddy.

Now...

- [Jim] Ah, hell.
- [Rob] Yeah!

...on the season finale...

[Jared] This is a lot of steel
moving up a mountain.

...one critical objective
remains...

[Jared] We're close,
but close only counts with

hand grenades and horseshoes.

...conquer Devil's Chute
and deliver enough timber to

buy out the Forever Claim.
- [Norm] Are you for real, man?

[Jared] This is as ugly
as it gets.

...before winter
shuts them out.

[Jared] This is it.
This is the hill to die on.

[wood creaking]

[Jared, on radio]

Come on, baby, come on.

Just gotta, we gotta
get to the top of this hill

and deal with this brake.

This is a bit of a flat spot.

We can stop,
we can assess everything,

cool everything down,
make sure everything's

gonna make it to the top
of this mountain.

OK, I guess everybody can
get out and take a look.

The end is set for Jared
and his crew.

In three days, the first heavy
snowfall hits Kachelot Creek,

ending all logging operations,
which gives Jared just two days

to harvest and haul timber
from Devil's Chute.

The goal, deliver no less than
$230,000 in profit, pull off

the impossible, and buy out
the Forever Claim.

[Jared]
This is gonna be the most wood
I've ever moved this fast.

And the Devil's Chute is one of
the most challenging

logging operations
that I've ever seen,

but money trees everywhere.

So we need to move quick

to get every single log that
I can on these trucks down to

the log dump, into the water
before winter chases us

off the mountains
and we're not able to harvest.

This is the bad break
right here.

It's stuck on and now
we're trying to pull through

the brakes while pulling
this equipment up the hill.

There's no way we're going to
make it up the Devil's Chute

till we get it fixed.
- [Lance] What do you got?

They're not even moving.
You're not working at all.

- Well, what's going on then?
- I don't know.

There was a bit of air pissing,
but it stopped.

And I didn't try changing
those lines.

[Lance] I did.
I swapped everything out.

Can you hit the drain
on the tanks?

'Cause this
ain't [bleep] right.

[banging]

[Critter] You got something
jammed right on.

[Lance] There's something
jammed on-- big time.

Well, it could be so [bleep]
hot right now, Critter, too.

[Critter]
Can't get this one to move.
This lock adjuster is screwed.

Jeez.

First day of the job,
you're stuck on.

[Jared] We're burning time,
daylight, and [bleep] cash.

Let's go.

I'm the guy down here
in the mud.

- Just stop it.
- [Lance] Well, [bleep].

All I can hear is
a lip up there.

[Dave, on radio]

[Lance] Why is that back axle
on there, Critter?

[Critter] It didn't matter.

[Jared] One sec.
Log barge just called.

[Dave, on radio]

[Jared] Go for Jared.
What's happening, Dave?

[Dave, on radio]

[Jared] [bleep], we'll be
shut down by then.

What if I can get a mechanic
to you?

[Dave, on radio]

[Jared] OK, I'm sending
someone in.

You on here, Adrian?

[Adrian, on radio]

[Jared] We got a crane down
on the log barge.

I need you to get out there
as quick as you can and get it

back up and running.

[Adrian, on radio]

[Jared] We got to move fast.

[Adrian, on radio]

Ugh, every [bleep] day.

There, they're released now.

We've got some slack.

Now, we're just going to leave
this brake alone.

We've still got three more.
We're in good shape.

[Critter] Next time,
you're getting in the mud.

[Jared] OK, everyone listen up!
Everything's good.

We can carry on the voyage.
Let's go!

[Ross] OK.

[groans]

Here we go.

[suspenseful music plays]

We're gonna get there.

Make that final push to
Devil's Chute.

20 miles away...

off the coast of
Kachelot Creek's
Purgatory Bay...

The mighty Hercules.

...Adrian heads for the log
barge, essential to hitting

their end-of-year goal,

on a mission to fix
the broken crane

before they're forced
to turn back.

[man, on radio]

[Adrian, on radio]

[Adrian] They got an issue
with one of the cranes.

No hydraulics, no functionality.

And I'm not sure what's
going on, but I just got to get

on board and go meet Dave,

and we'll see what he's got
happening there.

[Dave] I'm so happy you're here,
man, but, like, we got to get

at her.
- [Adrian] Hell yeah, dude!

[Dave]
Adrian and I work good together.

I know he's really good at
adapting and figuring out,

like, bush fixes,
like, anything to get

this thing so we can
load the logs.

This is a really integral set
of equipment, and I need

an extra hand to
figure this out.

No swing, no boom, no main line.

No hydraulics at all.
I've got a hydraulic lockout.

Nothing.

[Adrian] Hmm, OK.

[Dave] I don't know if something
electric is cutting out

the supply for the hydraulics.

[Adrian]
Well, electrical is either

[Dave] Oh yeah, no pressure.

[Adrian] There's no hydraulic
function on the crane right now.

It's a dual crane barge.
You can't load it with

one crane, you need
both of them going,

so we've got to figure
this crane out.

We have a very short amount
of time to do it.

This thing can't go to work
until we get the hydraulics

back online.

- Hydraulic oil's good.
- Yeah.

[Dave] I think maybe
we should flash her up

and let you
assess things.

Maybe we can double check
the charge and pilot pressures

on this.
- [Adrian] Let's light her up.

Yeah.
Fire in the hole!

[whirring]

That seems to be good.

[whirring slows and stops]

So this one
flickered a little bit,
but comparatively...

- Hot?
- ...that pump,

yeah, that pump's way hotter.
- OK.

And I mean, we're getting
a faulty pressure reading here.

Pump's hot, so that means

there's internal resistances.
It's probably come apart.

- I bet that pump's [bleep], man.
- I think we probably have one

in the toolage room at the stern
of the barge.

- [Adrian] You guys
pack them here?
- We got one of everything, man.

[Dave] If we can find it,
we can change it.

Fingers crossed.

20 miles from Purgatory Bay...

[Dave] Check out the back,
check out the stern.

...Jared's make-or-break log
barge of the season is crippled

with a broken crane until
Dave and Adrian replace

a vital part.

When you lose pump pressure
for your pilot system,

you're not doing anything.
You're dead in the water.

You're not going to control
anything at all.

So without this pump,
the crane's non-functional.

And if this is the issue,
then we're going to have to

find one somewhere around here.

- [sighs]
- [Dave] You know what, though?

They might have wrapped it
to keep it out of the salt air,

because that's
a pretty expensive component.

[Adrian] I did see a gray box
when we came in.

Ha!
Brand new.

[Adrian] Loggers are
like [bleep] squirrels,

hiding all their nuts
all over the place.

- Let's do this.
- Damn, dude.

- [Adrian] Nice.
- [Dave] Ah.

[banging]

[Adrian] Mm-hmm.

So that's our feed.
That runs oil,

creates pressure feeding
the hydraulic pumps,

and your pilot oil system
gives you the pressure to

the cab controls to actuate
your functions

under your fingertips.

We don't have any time to play
with here, so we've got to

make this work.

[grunts]

Shake it.

- [grunts]
- All right.

Holy [bleep], that thing's
in there.

Oh, buddy.
Yep.

What a b*tch.

[bleep]

♪

20 miles away...

[Jared] All right.

Nice and smooth, smooth is fast.

Well, the prize is
in sight here.

Good job, boys.
Well done.

We got to get these yarders
off these low beds and start

hiking them up the mountain.

We had a little bit of drama
with some brakes,

but two low beds
are turning around

and heading
back down the mountain.

So these guys are gonna have
to get up that hill,

get yarding logs, and hopefully
we can get some trucks

coming down here real soon.

To the top.

This is the Devil's Chute.

Some old timers named it that
years ago.

'Cause they think if you slip
off here, you're going to hell.

This is not a place to come
in the winter.

This is not a place
to come ever, but,

you know, desperate times calls
for desperate measures.

Rising nearly a quarter mile
up the mountainside,

Devil's Chute is one of
the steepest logging corridors

in the region, with narrow
roads and loose rock ready to

send a machine tumbling
straight to the valley floor.

Now, the cloud-shrouded cliffs
only amplify the danger.

[Jared] All right, boys.

See what we're up against.

- Are you for real, man?
- [Jared] Yeah.

[Jared] This is
all we got, boys.

[Norm] [bleep]

It is ugly.
There's no doubt about it.

[man] It's going to suck.

[chanting]

500 feet down,

Jared's team of fallers stack
the last high-value cedars of

the year for the yarders
staging above.

Oh, h*-h*-h*.
[bleep], it gets greasy.

Joining the charge,
Jim Gardner and Rob Winger.

[bleep] sucks having to drag
this thing down here,

but I'd rather have it
than not have it.

Put that on your back?

- [Jim] Yeah.
- [Rob] Oh, look at you.

[Rob] Now I feel [bleep] weak.

[laughing]

There's some serious hazards
in this new area, and it's

so steep and bouldery,
so just figured

bringing the jack in
would be a good idea.

It's always handy to have
a jack around when you've got

narrow, steep quarters
because we might need

all the options we can get.

[Jim] Nice big fir.

[Rob] That's a big one.

[Jim] Oh man, this tree is

cranked the wrong way.

[Rob] Yeah, it's cranked back.

[Jim] If it hits all those
rocks, it's going to turn into

a million pieces.

[Rob] That would not be
a good scenario.

You think we can jack it?

Yeah, jack it, use
every wedge we have.

We'll try a few tricks
if we can't get that to work.

If this 150-foot fir follows
it's lean, it could shatter

on the rocks above
and rain debris back down
on Jim and Rob.

So, after carving a face cut to
send it across the side hill,

they'll bore windows into
the backside and use two jacks

in tandem to force it toward
a softer landing.

All right, let's kick
the [bleep] out of this.

- [sputtering]
- [saw buzzing]

[Jim] Oh, that looks pretty good
from this side.

Start a back cut, get a jack in.

[Rob] I got the jack ready.

I'm gonna be,
I'm the head jacker.

I'm the head [bleep] here today,
so we'll see what happens.

[Jim] Gorgeous.

Gorgeous, gorgeous. OK.

And I'll just do the same thing
to get the next one out

and then we'll maybe start
jacking it up.

- It's a little more pressure.
- [Rob] Yeah.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[Jim] All right.

- Now...
- [Rob] Hook the other ram up.

[Rob] Start pumping.

That should be tight.

[Jim] So both jacks are going to
be working in succession.

[Rob] They should be.

[Jim] Hmm, not getting as much
stroke out of it.

- [Rob] Not lifting?
- [Jim] Not lifting.

- [Rob] Nothing?
- [Jim] Nope.

[bleep]

[Rob] You're down to half
the jacking power now.

We had planned on having
two rams in there,

equalizing the pressure on that
tree, and now you're just down

to one ram.

[Jim] Ah, [bleep].

Well, that makes it

more difficult.

[Rob] Still holding the 3500 PSI
on the lower one.

Well, we could try it on
just the one jack, I guess.

Hmm...

Yeah.

[Rob] We'll [bleep] wedge
like a [bleep].

- All right.
- [chainsaw buzzing]

Might be lifting.

- [Rob] Think it's lifting?
- [Jim] Might be.

[Rob] I can see the pressure
dropping on this thing.

Flickering every time he hits.
He's lifting it.

Oh, yeah.

[Jim] Oh, [bleep] yeah.

She's almost committed.

[popping]

Wait, you got her.
Wait, hold her.

- Hold her.
- Oh, it's going.

- [bleep], she's going, buddy.
- She's going!

Ha, ha, whoo!

- [popping]
- [creaking]

- [Rob] No, stay up!
Stay up!
- [Jim] Agh!

[Rob] Ugh.

And...

[Jim] Son of a b*tch!
Oh.

It dropped a little lower
than we wanted and it slid

down the hill.
They can salvage it still.

It's a beautiful piece of wood.

It'll be tougher for them
to get it to the road,

but it's not
the end of the world.

As long as once they
recover it, they get something

out of it.
- Exactly.

It's a win.

Back on the water.

[man, on radio]

[Dave, on radio]

[grunting]

- [bleep], there we go.
- [Dave] She's dry, [indistinct].

[Adrian] Crusty.
Whew.

OK.

- Greasing some of this.
- From ya.

- I'm gonna try and find
a hammer here, too.
- Yeah.

[Adrian] Old one's off.
New one is...

maybe mounted.
- [Dave] Yeah.

Ooh, nothing goes on
like fresh parts.

[Dave] What do we got left, bud?

[Adrian] I just got to
bolt her on,

and then it'll probably work.

[suspenseful strings play]

Come on, [bleep].

If Jared could stare at
the back of my head right now

while we do this,
I'm sure he would.

- [Dave] Time is money, buddy.
- [Adrian] I know.

You're close now, boy.
Jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk.

You got her.

- [Adrian] Deadly.
- [Dave] Good work.

OK, that's the pump on,
so let's fire it up

and make sure it's
going to work.

We don't have time
if it doesn't.

[Dave] No.

- [Dave] Ready?
- [Adrian] Valves open.

[Adrian] Yeah.

[Dave] Fire in the Hole.

Wah.

[Dave] Right on, kiddo.
Let's try our moment of truth.

- [Dave] Yeah, baby!
- [Adrian] Whoa!

- [Dave] Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- [Adrian] That's a lesson.

[Dave] We're going to be able to
load her up, bud.

- [Adrian] Hell yeah.
- [Dave] Ya-hoo!

[Dave] Unreal, Adrian.

- I got to roll.
- Deadly.

- Deadly, later, Bro.
- [Dave] Thank you.

[Adrian] The day started
as a catastrophe,

and we ended victorious.

It's a high-pressure industry,
always has been,

always will be.
There's always a time pressure.

In the logging industry,
this is the kind of
thing we face.

And if you're determined
enough, you can always get

the job done.

[Dave, on radio]

Back at the Devil's Chute...

- [Norm] That is ugly.
- [Jared] This is as ugly
as it gets.

[Jared] The fallers fell
the trees down there.

It's just your job to
extract them.

We're going to rig up one
grapple yarder here.

We're going to run
another yarder

coming towards each other.

[Norm] Look forward
to the challenge.

To harvest this timber
in under 36 hours,

Jared and crew will stage
a grapple yarder at each end
of the drop-off.

Then, after anchoring them to
surrounding stumps and trees,

they'll haul logs uphill,

closing the gap until the slope
is stripped clean.

[Jared] OK, boys,
let's get to it.

Right now, what we're doing is
anchoring the yarder down with

what we call the guide lines.

These are essentially
big anchoring cables so that

this yarder doesn't
flip over the bank.

[Norm]
I think we should tie that
pine back to that little yellow

there, and tie it back to that
yellow, and then tie back that

hemlock one more time,
and that should be

b*mb proof for pulling
over the edge.

It's not ideal,
but that's all we got.

We've never logged this steep.
It's straight up and down.

It's going to be a lot of pull
on this yarder.

So we have to get everything
just perfect, set up properly,

so that this yarder can yard
safely and start plucking trees.

Yeah, should be good,
they're all

nice and tight,
exactly what you want.

Play guitar on these things
now, they're so tight.

[Norm, on radio]

[Cody, on radio]

[Norm] That looks OK
so far, Code.

[Cody, on radio]

[Jared] Time's of the essence
right now.

You can see the snow just
straight across from us.

So I'm not only thinking about
the task at hand,

but I'm thinking about the snow.

Will we get this done?

[Rob] Brr.

It's getting chilly out.

It's like the snow's starting
to drop back down again.

[Jim] Yeah, it's come down
pretty good.

In the heart of Devil's Chute,

Jim and Rob race to drop

one more money tree
for the yarding crew above.

How does that fir look?

[Jim] Looks pretty good.
What do you figure?

[Rob] Yeah, it looks
pretty nice.

Bit of a sweep out over
the old bluff, though.

How far a fall's that?

That is about

We got any safety gear
we can tie off to?

Yep, I brought the harness
and the tie-off gear.

- [Jim] OK.
- In case you freaking slip

or I slip
or whoever's going to

fall it.
- [Jim] I'm not falling it.

Are you afraid of heights?

Oh, I'm deadly afraid
of heights.

- Are you?
- Yeah.

- [Rob] Seriously?
- Yep, big time.

- [Rob] Really?
- Yep.

Well, they say the only way to
conquer it is just to do it.

Just to do it.
Dive right in.

- [Jim] No, [bleep] no.
- [Rob] OK, I'll fall it, then.

[Jim] Rob's got
enough faith in me

that I'm gonna be holding him
up the hill.

We're both certified in
tying off knots and making sure

the next guy's safe,
but Rob's the guy with

the big ba*ls.

[Rob] Here comes the wind.

- [Jim] Right on time.
- [Rob] Yep.

[Rob] Sounds all right.

OK, well, if it's round
and sound, where do you think

the best place to put this is
if it hangs on?

Because if it does not,
it's going straight down

the hill and it's [bleep]
right off.

[Rob] I almost think trough
down below those stumps

is your best bet.

I think that's like
the nicest trough for it.

Worst case scenario, that fir,
with that sweep it's got,

breaks off straight down
the hill and it's gone.

Jared's not going to be able
to log it.

Nobody's going to get the wood.

What about undercut
in the bottom side?

Yeah, I'm going to
have to freaking...

I'm definitely harnessing up

because I'm going to have to be
able to get the undercut

standing on the roots
of that yellow cedar.

All right.

If this 60-ton fir falls
straight downhill,

it could slide
clean off the mountain,

far from any yarder's reach.

To avoid that, Rob will use
climbing gear to carve

a face cut aiming the tree
into a trough below.

Then, he'll send the whole
thing over with a back cut

and hope it sticks the landing.

We got a good game plan.

Let's go check the rigging out,
make sure it's all there.

[Jim] OK, I like that idea.

I haven't really hung off
the harness very much, so it

could be a bit spooky trying to
rely on a piece of rope.

And then it almost kind of

makes it feel like
a little puppet.

Jimmy's pulling the strings
up there.

I could be dancing around off
the end of the rock bluff.

So you really got to trust
your partner.

Not many people do this.

I think we're ready.

[bleep] wind picking up.

Let's get this [bleep]
bluff tree on the ground.

All right, pal.

[chainsaw buzzing]

- [Jim] Which way's it going now?
- The wind's going this way.

I'm going to try and put it
the same way, right just below

those two stumps.
- [Jim] All right,
good luck, man.

[Rob] Holy [bleep].

OK.

- OK, cinch it up?
- [Jim] I will.

Perfect.

What do you got, Rob?

[Rob] She's coming out.

Want to give that a smack?

There we go.

[Jim] [bleep] nice.

We're gonna have to take
some more out of that low side.

Thank you.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[bleep] me.

Come on.

[bleep] it.

There's a chunk of the undercut
I can't get out.

It's [bleep] too sketchy to be
out there.

It might go a bit high,
but it's all I can do.

It's already cut up.
We've got to get it
on the ground.

I'll start at the low side,
and if the [bleep] root knots

start to move, just start
yarding me out of there.

OK.
Ready, man.

[Rob] Cutting.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[popping]

[Rob] Oh, sound like
she stopped.

- Whoo!
- [laughing]

[Rob] Right where you said
to put her, too.

[Jim] No [bleep].

- [Jim] Nice and sound.
- [Rob] Really sound.

Way more sound than I thought.
[bleep] right.

- Oh, yeah.
- [Rob] Nailed it, Jimmy.

- [Jim] Honey shot, man.
- Thanks for the safety.

That was a bit spooky when I had
my foot on that little cedar.

I'm like, "Ooh."

But then I felt
you pulling on the rope a bit.

- Oh.
- I'm like, "I don't
like this much."

And then, yoink, yoink.

I'm like, "OK, that's not too
bad now."

- You can go right here,
Jim, come on.
- It's falling on the inside.

[Rob] Well, it's nice to get
that one on the ground.

I guess we should get
the hell out of here.

This weather's picking up,
and it's getting wild.

Yeah, even though
the weather's chasing us

out of here, we got a bluff tree
on the ground,

and I'm feeling awesome.

We accomplished
a pretty big goal there.

Hopefully, if our plan comes
together, they can log them

before the snow hits.
It's going to be close.

[suspenseful strings play]

Morning at Devil's Chute--

With the last log barge of the
season less than 24 hours out,

and a winter storm
closing in,

the Cypress Creek crew
is logging full steam.

[Jared] We're pulling all
our resources together,

using everything we got
to extract wood

off the hill right now.

Hey, where's that rope
on this side?

I'm just trying to manage
all that stuff,

just being one
with the operation.

Can you get some flagging tape
on this thing?

Actually, his-- go this side.

Are you back to
the main line now?

Whoo, there we go-- put another
one in the bag, buddy.

OK, that's good news.
Thanks, Critter.

[Jared] I need to just
keep the push.

Yeah, yeah, let's go.

That's my job.
I'm the boss.

I'm the push.

I need to push people,

fight like hell,
and hope for the best.

Mother[bleep].

Can we walk it up or what?

Like, we can't wait
five minutes, literally.

Here we are, right in
the middle of the road.

Bob's got a [bleep]
huge load on.

Right now, I can't afford
any setbacks.

Got logging trucks all piled up.

This is a complete [bleep]show.
Holy [bleep].

We just screwed it all up.

Let's go!

At this rate, there's no way
I'm going to get this done.

We have to move faster,
or we're [bleep].

[suspenseful strings play]

After months of hard-fought
scramble, logging operations

are officially shut down
for winter.

All that remains is to haul
their timber out of

Purgatory Bay and hope
there's enough of it to secure

the Forever Claim buyout.

A lot of hard work, a lot of
effort, and kind of on pins

and needles thinking that
this might not be enough.

To hit the $2 million mark,
Jared must profit $230,000

from this haul.

And not a penny less.

[exhales heavily]

We're close, but close
only counts with

hand grenades and horseshoes.

[exhales]

I've got to--

I've got to pray this is
going to be a shutout.

[Dave, on radio]

[Jared, on radio]

I think we did it.

It's full.
Right to the brim.

That log barge is going to
leave with enough profit in it

for me to make the purchase
of the Forever Claim.

It's a surreal feeling.

Words can't explain
all this hard work.

There's one thing left to do,
and it's write that check,

slide it across the table
to John Mohammed

and see the look on his face.

There you go, John.
$2 million.

[John] Here we go.
Purchase agreement.

We did it.
We [bleep] did it.

We got the Forever Claim.
We got it.

Oh [bleep].

The struggle that we had
this year.

[Ross] Holy [bleep].

[bleep].

[bleep]

The hurdles that we had to
jump through.

[bleep]

Not a happy boat.

[Jared] Everybody banded
together and we got it done.

- [Jared] There's the boom boat.
- [Sean] Oh, there she is.

[Rob] Booyah.

[Jared] It's not just
a company, it's a community.

Nice work, mister.

[Jared] It's everything.

All right.

I couldn't pick a better group
of people than I have

in front of me right now.

We've accomplished
so many things.

We've moved so many camps,
so many operations.

We've conquered a lot of things.

This is where legends are
going to be born.

Nothing can stop us now.

[Critter] We did it!
We did it!

- We did it!
- Big thank you, guys.

It's been a hell of a season.

We all rallied together,
got it done.

It's been a lot of hard work.
Cheers to Cypress Creek.

- All your hard work.
- [cheering]

[Garrett] Right on, boys.

- [Jared] Cheers.
- [man] Go.

[Jared] Now we know we have
a Forever Claim.

This is a game-changer.

What this means for me,

my company, and my crew
is security.

This is the best feeling.

The weight of the world's
off my shoulders.

But all I can think about
right now is what's next.

What else can we do
to expand the empire?

[cheering]